Burkina Faso extends amnesty to those involved in failed 2015 coup

Burkina Faso's military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, in Ouagadougou in 2022. The Transitional legislative assembly passed legislation offering amnesty to those in a failed coup in 2015. © Kilaye Bationo/AP

Burkina Faso’s transitional legislative assembly has passed a bill granting amnesty to soldiers involved in the failed coup in September 2015.

The law grants amnesty only to events that took place on 15 and 16 September 2015 when members of ex-President Blaise Compaoré’s elite Presidential Security Regiment tried to end the transitional government, less than a month before democratic elections.